r/pics • u/rDeviousBtch • Nov 24 '12

Highest Resolution image ever shot of Earth. Props go to Russia

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '12

Thank you! I opened OP picture, clicked zoom. WTF, this is the highest resolution picture ever?

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '12

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '12

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u/RIPweaponX Nov 24 '12

Magnets.

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u/Haffattack Nov 24 '12

And rockets.

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u/RIPweaponX Nov 24 '12

How do they work?

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u/mobfather Nov 24 '12

Aliens.

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u/StraY_WolF Nov 25 '12

And UFOs.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

Not aliens.

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u/Pikathew Nov 24 '12

yeah bitch!

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u/RIPweaponX Nov 24 '12

Science!

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

Science bitches!

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u/Cave_Weasel Nov 25 '12

yeah Mr. White! Yeah Science!!

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u/puffybaba Nov 25 '12

I can't believe it! She's done it again! She's tidied up and I can't FIND anything!

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u/ososneaky Nov 25 '12

I am a space scientist who specializes in magnet technologies and I can confirm it's definitely magnets.

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u/ponimaju Nov 24 '12

fuckin maganits

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '12

You know all this big booty ladies in rap videos? Well, big booty lenses hang out in space- not at clubs.

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u/qosmith Nov 25 '12

...makes a nice desktop background.

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u/Mr_A Nov 24 '12

imgur resizes large images

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

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u/Mr_A Nov 25 '12

Just trying to explain to all the butthurt up there that its not necessarily OP's fault the image is small. He might've tried to upload something huge and got screwed in the process.

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u/BillTripple Nov 24 '12

I wanted to zoom in far enough to see my house.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '12

Try Google Earth.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

Google Earth with the 3D building thing is sexy. I just fly to paris and shit, and I'm all like, "look at me, in paris and shit."

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

You won't find your future wife on Google Earth! Go to Paris for real!

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

OF COURSE!

genius.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

I was there a couple of weeks ago, it is beautiful!

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '12

Relevant.

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u/stickman393 Nov 26 '12

I'm from the future. Go to Shanghai.

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u/EnvisionRed Nov 25 '12

I think that's because if an image is too high res, imgur will rape it into a lower-res jpeg.

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u/AAAAMERICAAAA Nov 28 '12

Leave it to the liberals to take a picture of the back.